Kalle & Co. v. Multazo Co.’s Empirical Analysis
109 F.2d 321 · 1940
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 1972
11 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 35 U.S.C. § 33
Relies on Corona Cord Tire Co. v. Dovan Chemical Corp. · Permutit Co. v. Graver Corp. · Schriber-Schroth Co. v. Cleveland Trust Co. · A. O. Smith Corp. v. Petroleum Iron Works Co. · Cleveland Trust Co. v. Schriber-Schroth Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where within a general classification disclosed by the claims, are compounds which do not answer the description of the specification, even though there be a general quality common to them all, yet if there be no common quality in respect to their effectiveness in achieving the inventive concept, claims for their exclusive use cannot be sustained. Corona Cord Tire Co. v. Dovan Chemical Corp., 276 U.S. 358, 385 , 48 ;S.Ct. 380, 72 L.Ed. 610 ; Metals Recovery Co. v. Anaconda Copper Mining Co., 9 Cir., 31 F.2d 100 . We find no error in the holding of the court that the ‘16’ patent is invalid for lack of adequate disclosure.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]ut of a maze of confusing scientific discussion in briefs and record, there yet emerges with reasonable clarity to the understanding imperfectly schooled in chemical science,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.